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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

HT:GatewayPundit.Princeton Study Unintentionally Links Barack Obama to Current Financial Meltdown.In 1994 Barack Obama represented Calvin Roberson and ACORN in a lawsuit against Citibank, charging the bank systematically denied mortgages to African-American applicants. Obama worked against banks who denied mortgage loans to minorities.The case against Citibank was settled out of court. This lawsuit was one of a series of lawsuits that were filed by ACORN using “redlining and racism” allegations to lower credit standards.In 2007 Barack Obama actually said that, “Giving sub-prime loans to people who can’t afford them is a good idea."The article was a bit off. It wasn’t racism that caused the banks to loan to minorities. And, it wasn’t George Bush.It was liberal policy.Regardless, it all leads back to Barack Obama.What a shock.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

Pakistan's Extremists Are Carrying Out Their Own Decapitation Strategy.Pakistan's Pashtun-dominated Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province witnessed another high-profile murder on October 2, even as most of the country was reeling from violence on a scale not witnessed in recent history.Muhammad Farouq Khan, a renowned scholar and an ardent supporter of nonviolent Islam, was the latest victim of the terror wave unleashed by armed men purporting to be Taliban or students of religious seminaries.Many observers believe the cold-blooded murder of the soft-spoken Farouq Khan inside his clinic was part of a plot to create the impression that this part of Pakistan is on the verge of being taken over by the Taliban, with the ultimate aim of squeezing more dollars from the United States and the international community.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Trump 'Seriously Considering' 2012 Presidential Bid.He's not exactly throwing his hat in the ring yet, but real estate mogul Donald Trump told Fox News on Tuesday that he's giving his first serious consideration to running for president in 2012.He suggested he has the "common sense" and, most importantly, the "finesse" to be commander-in-chief."I think my whole life has sort of been about finesse when you get right down to it. I mean it's -- what running a country is, is to a certain extent we have to bring principle back and we have to also bring common sense back," Trump said. "We have no common sense. We have no common sense. And we're losing this country. Mark my words, if we keep going this way, we're losing this country. It will no longer be great. It's not respected to anywhere near what it used to be.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

'German Taliban' video posted on al-Qaeda website.A recruiting video produced by German militants and posted on an al-Qaeda website has cast fresh light on how European Islamists are joining insurgents fighting in Pakistan's mountainous tribal areas.The 51-minute film shows German-speaking gunmen, armed with AK-47s, light machine guns and mortars, apparently taking on Pakistani troops in South Waziristan and Orakzai, areas close to the border with Afghanistan.They include a clean-shaven man of Caucasian appearance, who wears a baseball hat pulled low on his face and sunglasses.German authorities believe at least 70 German nationals have travelled to Pakistan for training, with about a third returning home.A drone strike on Monday killed eight militants, including possibly five Germans, according to Pakistani security sources, as part of a US surge in attacks to kill the plotters.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

Blind man barred from Dubai flight over disability.A blind American traveler says he was stopped from getting on a flight in Dubai on Tuesday because of his disability — a decision the government-run airline insists was a mistake it regrets."I was mad. ... I couldn't believe it," the 37-year-old information technology specialist said. "I tried to reason with them, but I just got a single cold answer."He left the airport and went to stay at a brother's house in Dubai until he could catch another flight out.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:TheLastCrusade.Gulen college opens in Chicago.Welcome to the American Islamic College, where students will be trained to take part in the creation of a universal caliphate and the international expansion of militant Islam.Alexander has also claimed that Hamas and their terrorist activities were really no different than what the “Christian evangelical right” has brought forth.Dr. Zaher Sahloul, president of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago, boastfully calls the college “a sleeping giant.”What happens when the giant awakes?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Coldest winter in 1,000 years on its way?After the record heat wave this summer, Russia's weather seems to have acquired a taste for the extreme.Forecasters say this winter could be the coldest Europe has seen in the last 1,000 years.The change is reportedly connected with the speed of the Gulf Stream, which has shrunk in half in just the last couple of years. Polish scientists say that it means the stream will not be able to compensate for the cold from the Arctic winds. According to them, when the stream is completely stopped, a new Ice Age will begin in Europe.So far, the results have been lower temperatures: for example, in Central Russia, they are a couple of degrees below the norm.“Although the forecast for the next month is only 70 percent accurate, I find the cold winter scenario quite likely,” Vadim Zavodchenkov, a leading specialist at the Fobos weather center.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Worker Spoke of Jihad, Agency Says.A New Jersey man accused of joining Al Qaeda in Yemen spoke openly of militant views while working at American nuclear plants, according to a report by the inspector general of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that proposes tightening personnel security rules.The man, Sharif Mobley, who is charged by Yemeni authorities with murdering a hospital guard during an escape attempt in March, said he told others in his labor union: “We are brothers in the union, but if a holy war comes, look out,” said the report from the inspector general, Hubert T. Bell.His lawyers have admitted that Mr. Mobley was in contact with Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born radical cleric in Yemen who has been linked to several terrorist plots and has called for attacks on the United States. But the lawyers have said Mr. Mobley denies being involved in any terrorist plot.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Poll: Two-thirds think stimulus was a 'waste'.Over two-thirds of Americans believe that President Obama's signature stimulus bill was a waste, a new poll found Tuesday. The figure suggests that the cornerstone of the Obama administration's agenda to bolster the economy has fallen flat with voters as elections loom in four weeks. The poll also hints that the White House's effort to sell the bill to the public has been far from successful.Republicans have hammered Democrats who supported the stimulus over the last 20 months, accusing them of wasting money while not creating jobs, while Democrats claim that hundreds of thousands more jobs would have been lost had the stimulus not been enacted.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:TheJawaReport.YouTube Suspends MEMRI TV Videos.It seems some vids are removed others are not.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Dutch Court Rejects Wilders Push to Change Judges at Muslim-Insult Trial."There are no weighty indications that the judges have given the impression of being prejudiced,” Judge Frans Bauduin, who was brought in to rule on the impartiality question, said at the court today. The trial, which was halted yesterday, will continue with the current judges tomorrow at 9 a.m. local time.“The words used by the presiding judge in that last sentence were chosen unfortunately,” Bauduin said. “They’ve given the requestor a wrong impression.” Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

This year’s winter may be the harshest – Polish climatologists.According to Polish climatologists, the Gulfstream- the Atlantic warm current, which protects Europe against the Arctic cold, is cooling fast. It might even disappear completely, they warn.Russian meteorologists disagree with the pessimism of their Polish counterparts, agreeing though that the speed of the Gulfstream has indeed been reduced two-fold for several years. The Scandinavian countries are already feeling the breathing of the Arctic.Explanation:Shutdown or slowdown of the thermohaline circulation is a postulated effect of global warming.Global warming could lead to an increase in freshwater in the northern oceans, by melting glaciers in Greenland and by increasing precipitation, especially through Siberian rivers.It is by no means clear that sufficient freshwater could be provided to interrupt thermohaline circulation — climate models indicate not, but research continues.In my opinion this is what is happening right now!Read the full story here and here.Click here for comments.

Chief Negotiator for EU Criticizes MHP Leader's Prayer in Ani.Bağış said sarcastically that it was a good development that the MHP administration started praying and he advised them to read the Sura Al'Maida which warns those who show off during worship rituals.MHP Deputy Chairman, Mehmet Şandır, responded to the criticisms of Bağış and said that he should read the 51st verse of the Sura Al'Maida which states that one should not make friends with the Jews and Christians because they are each others' friends. He added that the sura adds that those who are friendly with them become one of them.Hmmmm....and these people want to enter the European union?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Beautiful: Having torn the health insurance industry asunder, Democrats appear ready to lay waste to the life insurance industry.Never mind that America has no static class structure -- the rich become poor and the poor rich every day of the week. Never mind that life insurance has protected those of modest means for centuries.Never mind all that. The progressives have American society to tear down. And more taxes to collect in their plot to redistribute everyone's wealth.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Obama Lied, Health Plans Died: 3M Retirees Lose Their Company Coverage, Get Shoved Into Medicare (Which, By the Way, Just Got Slashed by $500 Billion).Runner-up Headline: Dear 3M retirees: if you like your current health plan, too f***ing bad.Today's Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal reports that 3M is dropping its health coverage for retirees thanks to ObamaCare.Aren't glad you voted for in favor of Obama care?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:EmergingCorruption.Chicago’s ShoreBank morphs into Urban Partnership Bank to continue its progressive Green Agenda using FDIC funds.Chicago’s ShoreBank, known as the “Clintons’ favorite bank” and with close ties to the Obama Administration, which allegedly pushed Goldman Sachs and Citibank to underwrite it using $135 million of their TARP funds even as it reported losses, failed on August 20th but immediately reorganized itself as Urban Partnership Bank. Upon the reorganization, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) quickly handed over $367.7 million to keep the newly renamed bank’s doors open.Earlier in the year, the Illinois Financial Authority’s chairman, Bill Brandt, ignoring pressure from Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky to bail out ShoreBank and its toxic assets, literally passed the buck to the Feds when he hinted at potential political fallout and/or actual physical street violence if ShoreBank, whose executives were neighbors of the Obamas in Chicago, was not bailed out by the US Treasury.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Religious intolerance rising among Indonesian Muslims.About 57.8 per cent of Muslims oppose the construction of churches or other non-Muslim place of worship. Only 27.6 per cent accept that non-Muslim teachers teach Muslims. The absence of government policy and unrestrained schools and teachers are among the causes of the rising fundamentalism.The data shows that Muslim opposition to churches and non-Muslim religious buildings rose from 40.5 per cent to 57.8 per cent.In 2010, around 27.6 per cent of those surveyed said they did mind if a non-Muslim taught their children at school, a 6.2 per cent increase compared to 2008 (21.4 percent), but still lower than in 2007 (33.5 percent).According to PPIM executive director Burhanudin, greater intolerance is closely linked to Islamic fundamentalism, whose rise is directly related to the absence of policies to counter it in favour of a more moderate Islam.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Check-in areas at five major European airports among targets of terror plot as French arrest men with links to al Qaeda.A law enforcement official told ABC News that terror teams could have staged commando-style attacks on pre-security areas packed with travellers before they boarded flights.It comes after French police today arrested eleven men suspected of links to Islamic extremists, a police source said.The head of MI5, Jonathan Evans, spoke publicly last month about the continuing threat of terror attacks in the UK.In his speech he suggested that around 50 per cent of the plots identified had links to Pakistan – a decline on previous estimates that suggested the figure was nearer 75 per cent.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Americans explore, enjoy wonders of Turkey at Washington festival.The eighth edition of the festival was organized by the American Turkish Association of Washington, D.C, (ATA-DC) and took place at Freedom Plaza, near the White House. This year’s festival was titled “Explore the Wonders of Turkey in the Heart of D.C.”The festival’s visitors delighted in the Kolbastı, a regional folkloric dance known for its energetic steps and music, and other types of Turkish folk dances. Examples of traditional Turkish arts, including hat (calligraphy), ebru (paper marbling), çini (glazed ceramics), miniatures and carpet knotting that were on display in the culture and tourism tents also attracted many guests. Many visitors bought T-shirts featuring Turkish flags. A special section was opened to tell the story of the Ottoman Janissary soldiers. Visitors attentively listened to presentations about the clothes the Janissary soldiers wore, while some tried on the uniforms and took pictures.What they forgot to tell the spectators was :"The Janissaries comprised infantry units that formed the Ottoman sultan's household troops and bodyguards. The force was created by the Sultan Murad I from Christian male children levied (every five years, Turkish administrators would scour their regions for the strongest sons of the sultan's Christian subjects. These boys, usually between the ages of 10 and 12, were then forcibly taken from their parents and enrolled in Janissary training. The recruit was immediately indoctrinated into the ways of Islam.)through the devşirme system from conquered countries in the 14th century."Ambassador Tan said the festival was getting bigger and better each year.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:IsraelMatzav.Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Kotler blasts 'Human Rights Council'.Human Rights lawyer (without the scare quotes) and former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Kotler rips the United Nations 'Human Rights Council' for its abuse of human rights.First, the council has turned a blind eye to the world's most serious human rights violators, failing to adopt any resolution or investigative mandate for such human rights violator countries as China, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Russia or Iran, to name but a few -- all being listed on Freedom House's list of the 20 worst human rights abusers. While the UN General Assembly calls for countries to be elected to the council based on their human rights records, 24 out of 47 present members (51 per cent) fail to meet fundamental standards of democracy and human rights. in an appalling breach of its own principles and procedures, the UN Human Rights Council has institutionalised a permanent agenda item indicting one member state -- agenda item No 7, which speaks of "Israeli human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories" -- while agenda item No 8 speaks of "human rights violations in the rest of the world". Here is an Alice in Wonderland situation where the conviction is secured before the hearing begins.What, then, can be done in light of these assaults on the UN charter and the mandate of the Human Rights Council?Kotler has a list of suggestions. Sadly, so long as the UN operates on the principle of one nation, one vote, I don't believe any of Kotler's suggestions will work. The good guys will always be outvoted.I wish to God that more people like him were around .I salute his honesty and courage.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Gay Saudi prince 'strangled his manservant to death at top London hotel in sexually-motivated killing'.A gay Saudi prince killed his servant in a ferocious murder which had a 'sexual element', a court heard today.Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud had previously subjected Bandar Abdulaziz to physical assaults and mistreatment, the Old Bailey was told.The 32-year-old victim was found beaten and strangled in bed at the London hotel room he was sharing with the prince on February 15.But CCTV footage from a lift at the Landmark hotel in Marylebone where they were staying showed the victim had been subjected to a 'really nasty assault' by the defendant himself on January 22, said Jonathan Laidlaw QC, prosecuting.It became clear to police that he had been killed 'in the privacy of the room he had shared with the defendant and when alone with him', the court heard.Further searches of CCTV footage revealed previous assaults on the victim by the defendant, Mr Laidlaw said.Mr Laidlaw told jurors the prince now admits carrying out the killing so it would be for them to decide if he were guilty of murder or only manslaughter.The 34-year-old denies murder and one count of grievous bodily harm with intent.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

MKs, rabbis rally against planned closure of West Bank synagogue.Some 200 rightists say government's decision to seal shul in El Matan but not mosque in nearby Palestinian village 'discriminatory.' MK Eldad: Selective enforcement of laws against Jews while ignoring Arab violations'."I am in favor of freedom of religion for Muslims and the construction of churches and mosques, but synagogue must be built in the Land of Israel first," Knesset Member Danny Danon (Likud) told the rally."It cannot be that there will be one law for Palestinians and another for Jews. I ask myself, if this is the situation at the onset of (Israeli-Palestinian) negotiations, what will be the dessert? I urge the prime minister (Benjamin Netanyahu) to intervene, because I have no expectations from the defense minister (Ehud Barak)."Yitzhar's rabbi, David Dudkevich wondered "how a Jewish state insists on sealing a synagogue under false pretenses, when that same state does not enforce the law at the Temple Mount, the most sacred Jewish site."Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

The Iranian freedom movement and Israel.Animosity toward the Jewish state has always been a common denominator between so-called reformist and hard-line Islamists in Iran.THE VOICE of Israel has been present in Iran via the Persian service of Radio Israel even before the revolution of 1979. Under the dictatorship of the mullahs, it became one of the most important sources of information for ordinary Iranians.The turning point was the socalled Kuds day in September 2009, when Iranians massively protested against the regime’s hate show against Israel. They countered the regime’s slogans “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” with chants against the allies of the Islamic Republic, Russia and China, and tore down solidarity banners for Hamas and Hizbullah. The popular rallying cry “No to Gaza, no to Lebanon, my life is for Iran” clearly expressed the refusal of the jihadi expansionism of the regime.In Europe and other parts of the world, hatred of Israel is an intellectual resentment and a tool to gain influence in the Middle East. For democratic Iranians, it is a vital matter of self-interest to renounce the terrorist foreign policy of the regime, which at the end of the day is exerted against them. Iranian society today is questioning everything the Islamic Republic stands for.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:TheEndoftheAmericanDream.This Is Starting To Get Very Real: Agricultural Commodity Prices Have Exploded And Now The Price Of Food Is Beginning To Rise Substantially In The United States And All Over The World.Do you believe that you will always be able to run out to Wal-Mart or to the local supermarket and buy massive amounts of inexpensive food? If so, you might want to think again. During 2010, agricultural commodity prices have absolutely exploded. Nearly every single important agricultural commodity has seen a double digit percentage price increase.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

İSAM head: ‘Open Aya Sofya to Muslims on weekdays, to Christians on Sundays’.Aydın said that as a Muslim he is disturbed to see that Aya Sofya is still closed to worshippers. “I believe the continuation of the culture of coexistence at Aya Sofya, which I hope will improve in Turkey, is more important and acceptable than its remaining as a museum. I’d like it, as a Muslim, to become a mosque. But if Aya Sofya is supposed to be opened to Muslim worshippers on weekdays, then it should be opened to Christians on Sunday.Again the Discrimination of Christians is obvious in their view of "Freedom of Religion".Are Christians to them such an inferior race? Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Saudi authorities stop 'Satanist' trade mark.Say skull and crossbones design is shaped in line with Satanists logo.It quoted a statement by the court as saying:”After viewing that trade mark, which was to be placed in some garments and shoes brands, the Diwan decided to ban that logo because it will create a mood of non-confidence and non-tranquility.”It added:”A logo containing a skull and crossbones symbolises cruelty, ruthlessness and hostility……it is our right to protect our nation from such symbols which constitute a flagrant violation of the system and public conduct.”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

The Anti-Obama for President.In short, Bolton represents the anti-Obama. As an ....its time we went as far right as we did to the left when we elected [Obama]. This country needs the strongest leader we can find to take us back to being a world leader...Now that I think about it, perhaps a Bolton-Palin ticket would be the best way to drive the leftwing crackpots wild.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Congressmen Introduces Bill to Force Obama to Deploy at Least 10,000 National Guardsmen at Mexican Border.Rep. Ted Poe (R.-Texas), who served for 30 years as a Texas prosecutor and judge before being elected to Congress, introduced legislation last week designed to force President Barack Obama to deploy a minimum of 10,000 National Guard troops at the U.S. Mexico border for the specific purpose of patrolling the border and intercepting aliens and smugglers attempting to cross illegally into the United States.The legislation would allow the president to deploy more than 10,000 National Guardsmen, but not fewer.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:Moonbattery.Art Censored at Penn State for Being Critical of Islamic Terrorism.Penn State art graduate Joshua Stulman can't say he didn't get any knowledge for his tuition dollar. He learned quite a bit about the difference between a free society and one run by progressives.Stulman is surprised that the same moonbats who would support the rights of Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois do not support the right to criticize the historical allies of Nazis. He still has some learning to do regarding liberalism.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

Senior Clerics' Websites Blocked In Iran.The websites of three senior Iranian clerics -- Ayatollah Yusef Sanei, Ayatollah Assadollah Bayat Zanjani, and Ayatollah Ali Mohammad Dastgheyb -- who have been critical of the Iranian establishment and the postelection crackdown have reportedly been blocked in Iran.All three have condemned the filtering of their websites inside the country in separate statements and comments. The websites include news related to the clerics, their views and statements, and also their rulings on different religious issues.Clerics who have criticized the human rights violations that followed last year's presidential election have come under increasing pressure in the Islamic republic.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:DanielGreenfield.Muslim Prayer Rugs and Jewish Orphans.On a late summer evening, Omar Rivera stumbled over to a local mosque, clutching a beer bottle in his hand and looking for a place to answer nature’s call. He chose the Al-Imam Mosque and proceeded to urinate around its exterior, where there were apparently some Muslim prayer rugs lying around. Omar had committed what was a fairly commonplace act of vandalism in the city, public urination. When suddenly he became the poster child for the rise of a “New Islamophobia”.Kill as many Jews as you want, but never piss on a Muslim’s sacred rug. Truly, Islamophilia has become the new Anti-Semitism.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:armedforcesjournal.Here are 10 things Americans don’t fathom about the Chinese navy.The U.S. maritime strategy charges the naval services to develop “cultural, historical, and linguistic expertise ... to nurture effective interaction with diverse international partners.” Unquestionably, no nation demands this expertise more than the People’s Republic of China. Its sheer size and pace of growth, coupled with a strategic stance that is often divergent from ours, demands attention, particularly in the maritime realm.It appears that both sides of the Chinese-U.S. relationship are still attempting to define each other in today’s post-Cold War world. Some people, such as retired Adm. James Lyons, former commander of the Pacific Fleet, see a “real and growing” Chinese threat in the Asia-Pacific region. Others, such as Thomas Barnett, argue that much deeper and broader military-to-military engagement is possible — even in areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan. The truth is somewhere between the two. Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Google's Bizarre Blacklist.Ever since Google unveiled its new search function, hackers have been compiling a list of banned words, including Latina and “meats.” Brian Ries talks to some of the blacklisted.Somewhere hidden deep within Google’s massive cache of servers, there is a blacklist unlike any other. For starters, it contains enough sexually suggestive terms to make any 15-year-old boy’s head explode. But there are also some unexpected words, like, say, Latina. And hidden from public view, the official version will never see the light of day.But over the past few weeks, a group of hackers in New York City has been trying to crack the code.The list started with Google’s new search function, Google Instant. Introduced in early September, it shows results as you type—as opposed to waiting for you to press enter. It works like a telepathic Internet concierge, hoping to send you along to the most relevant results on the Web.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:TheSmokingGun.Pants On Ground Prompts Bullet In Butt.Police: Suspect shot teen for saggy walking in Memphis.Incensed when two teenagers ignored his demands to pull up their saggy pants, a Memphis man allegedly shot one of the youths in the back, according to police.Bonds allegedly pulled out a pistol and fired a shot at the older boy. The shot missed, but as the boys fled, Bonds continued firing at them. One bullet hit the 17-year-old in the buttocks and exited through his thigh (the boy was treated for the wound at two different hospitals).God they should give the guy a paintball gun and let him patrol the city.Read the full story here ,especially the comments are worth while!Click here for comments.

HT:IsraelMatzav.Netanyahu under pressure to reject American deal outright.Prime Minister Netanyahu has rejected at least one offer of a package deal in return for an extension of the 'settlement freeze.' But he has yet to reject an extension outright and under any circumstances. On the other hand, most Israelis are opposed to any extension of the 'settlement freeze.' And so when reports started surfacing Sunday of Likud ministers who may be willing under certain circumstances to vote for an extension, the Likud ministers made a mad rush to the exits. Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:TheFoxNation.Guess Which Network Obama Talks to Most? Last week, President Obama sat down to chat with NBC's Matt Lauer, marking the president's 25th interview with a peacock property.We looked at how many interviews the networks have been given since Obama took office and, not surprisingly, Fox came in last. Here's how they fared : 25 - NBC (including CNBC, MSNBC); 16 - ABC; 15 - CBS; 8 - CNN (including CNN Espanol); 4 - . Source.Click here for comments.

The global mad grab for Arctic oil. Russia and the United States are among the nations laying claim to the last fossil-fuel frontier, but there are good reasons to ban its exploitation.LONDON - If we didn't already have the phrase "Cold War," we'd have to invent it to describe the power struggle taking place for Arctic Ocean resources.The world has seen how Putin's Russia uses energy as a weapon of power politics. That Putin believes Arctic disputes can be resolved amicably is about as plausible as believing he has genuinely handed over power to President Dmitry Medvedev.In truth, the Russians are planning to grab control of as much of the Arctic as they can. But so are Canada, the U.S., Iceland, Denmark and Norway. If the Chinese can think of some plausible reason for saying it is theirs, no doubt they will be there soon as well.There are two good reasons to place a ban on Arctic mining.A ban on mining and drilling in the Arctic is the only way. For a few more barrels of oil, it's not worth the risk.Hmmmmm....the oil Russia is promising in the future to China will have to come from somewhere?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Russia increases combat capabilities in Arctic.Russia is currently increasing its combat potential in the Arctic with new ships and additional station sites, Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Vysotsky said on Saturday.Russian naval ships and submarines have already conducted over ten military patrols of the Arctic in 2010, Vysotsky said."In accordance with the Russian Armed Forces' plan of strategic deterrence we take measures aimed to demonstrate military presence in the Arctic," the navy commander said.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Legitimacy of Islam at heart of Tenn. mosque suit.That's he dispute at the heart of recent hearings in a lawsuit aimed at derailing the new Islamic Center of Murfreesboro. What started as a zoning issue has turned into a fight over theology and the role of government in recognizing religion.Mosque opponents say that Islam is not a real religion. They argued in a Rutherford County courthouse last week that the world's second-largest faith, with its 1.6 billion followers, is actually a political movement."There are all kinds of fights over what is a religion and what isn't," said Charles Haynes, a senior scholar at the First Amendment Center. "Islam is not one of them."For the most part, he said courts and government officials steer clear of trying to define religion."You can believe anything you want," Walker said. "But we are not going to let your kids handle snakes or let you practice revenge killing or other illegal activity."Walker also said the Constitution prohibits the government from enforcing religious law - Christian, Muslim or any other faith.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Insurance For Pre-Existing Conditions Expensive Under ObamaCare.But the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan started this summer isn't living up to expectations. Enrollment lags in many parts of the country. People who could benefit may not be able to afford the premiums. Some state officials who run their own "high-risk pools" have pointed out potential problems.But, of course, these companies are all evil for actually wanting to make a profit. I challenge all liberal owners of business to stop making profits, putting every cent into paying higher wages and awesome health insurance. Basically, turn your company, the one you use to feed and water your family, the one that allows you to live well, take vacations, and plan for retirement, into a non-profit.Stop going out to eat, stop taking vacations, and stop living well. Live the life you say every other company should live.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:TheJewishOdysseus.Has the media reached a turning point a bad one on Islam?This weekend appears to mark a turning point in Islam’s war against America. This weekend, the lamestream media, via ABC News, officially declared its allegiance to Islam.On Friday night, Diane Sawyer and Bill Weir hosted a laughably shallow and juvenile (and one-sided) “special,” "Faith and Fear: Islam in America.” And today, the absurdly miscast and undertalented Christiaaaaane Amanpooooouuuuur ran an even worse “town hall“ show, “Holy War: Should Americans Fear Islam?”But is there any doubt that an effort premised on the idea of pushing shariah-goodness to the descendants of Jefferson, Washington, and Patton is headed for a flaming crash to rival the Hindenburg?!Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

EDL 'to defy' government ban on Leicester march.The English Defence League (EDL) says it plans to defy a government ban on a planned march by the right-wing group in Leicester.Home Secretary Theresa May authorised the blanket ban on any rallies in the city on 9 October following concerns about public disorder.A counter-demonstration was planned by Unite Against Fascism (UAF).The EDL called the move an infringement of its human rights and said it would march on Saturday.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

America's European terror alert only helps sow panic.The warning doesn't even specify a country, much less a city, and essentially tells citizens that it's every man for himself.Hmmm...the "October Surprise"..don't worry i'm in control....anything for a vote?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Self-Aiming Sniper Rifles Coming Next Year.A sniper crouches near an open window and zooms in on his target, who sits a half-mile away. He peers through a scope and holds his breath, preparing to squeeze the trigger. But it’s windy outside, and he can't afford a miss. What to do?Clearly, he needs a self-aiming gun. Fortunately, one should be available next year.Using the One-Shot system, under development by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a new electro-optical system will calculate the ballistics for him, telling him where to aim and ensuring a perfect shot -- no matter the weather conditions.During the project’s first phase, which started in 2007, Lockheed developed a down-range system that measured average crosswind; range to target; spotter scope position; air temperature, pressure, and humidity; and more, according to Military Aerospace. Using all those variables, the company calculated the ballistics for a .308 bullet at ranges as far as 3,600 feet.Lockheed is supposed to deliver 15 field-testable prototypes by next October.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:WeaselZippers".“One Nation” Official Website Using Picture of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” Rally in Place of Their Own.Hmmmm.....must be for them...."I Have a Nightmare?"Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:BlazingCatFur.Canada:Imam Zijad Delic's Islamic History Month Advisory Board : Includes Mohamed Elmasry, 911 Truther, Louis Farrakhan Fanboy, Muslim Brotherhood Member.If indeed Imam Delic of the Canadian Islamic Congress is the moderate he claims he may wish to moderate his acquaintances.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:WeaselZippers.Somalia: Hundreds Watch Al-Shabaab Chop Teenager’s Hand, Foot off After Sharia Judge Finds Him Guilty of Robbery.“Sharia law is like the Declaration of Independence, therefore America is a sharia-compliant state” - Ground Zero Mosque Imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf…Hmmmm......the medical care after the decapitation,would that be covered under Obama care?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Army embeds active-duty PSYOPS soldiers at local TV stations.The U.S. Army has used local television stations in the U.S. as training posts for some of its psychological-operations personnel.The relationship between PSYOPS, Training With Industry, and television news operations has stirred controversy in the past. In 2000, after a Dutch newspaper reported that PSYOPS troops had been placed in CNN's newsroom under the program, CNN discontinued the internships and admitted that they had been a mistake. "It was inappropriate for PSYOPS personnel to be at CNN, they are not here now, and they never again will be at CNN," a spokesperson said at the time.WRAL and WTOC are not alone among media outlets that the U.S. military has sought to learn from through Training With Industry. The Upshot has previously reported that the Marine Corps placed public affairs officers with the Chicago Tribune for several years in order to better understand how to influence and work with the news media, and CNNMoney.com hosted an officer in 2007 and 2008, despite the network's embarrassment over the program in 2000.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:HIDF.New Zealand TV host apologizes to Indian-origin Gov Gen for racial slur. Prominent New Zealand broadcaster Paul Henry today apologised after he triggered a race row involving the country’s Indian-origin Governor General Sir Anand Satyanand, a media report said. While interviewing New Zealand Prime Minister John Key this morning, Henry asked whether Satyanand was a New Zealander or not. "Is he even a New Zealander?" Henry asked Key. "Are you going to choose a New Zealander who looks and sounds like a New Zealander this time… Are we going to go for someone who is more like a New Zealander?" Henry quizzed the Prime Minister, who appeared taken aback."I sincerely apologise to the Governor General, Anand Satyanand for any offence I may have caused," Henry was quoted as saying by ‘New Zealand Herald’. "I am aware that Sir Anand has made an outstanding contribution to New Zealand. Anyone who knows anything about me will know I am a royalist, a constant defender of the monarchy and the role the Governor-General plays in our society," the statement said. "If my comments have personally offended Sir Anand, I regret it deeply," the daily said. Meanwhile, Green Party human rights spokesman Keith Locke said Henry’s apology "falls well short of the mark". "He has not recognised that his comments were deeply insulting. It was not good enough for him to simply say he regrets it ‘if my comments have personally offended Sir Anand’," said Locke.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:WeaselZippers.Geert Wilders Trial Adjourned After Judges Charged With Bias.The hate speech trial of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders was adjourned for 24 hours shortly after opening in Amsterdam on Monday as he called on the judges to recuse themselves on the grounds of bias.After a brief initial statement in the morning in which he defended his right to free speech, Wilders announced to the court that he would invoke his right to remain silent and not answer any questions.This moved presiding judge Jan Moors to observe that Wilders has often been accused in the media of making wild statements and then avoiding the discussions they evoked, adding “it seems as if you’re doing it again”.Wilders then sought the recusal of Moors and his two assistants, claiming they had demonstrated bias against him.“Inappropriate, even scandalous”, Wilders told the court of the statement, adding: “In my opinion, a fair trial is no longer possible”His lawyer Bram Moszkowicz said the incident has “created an impression of partiality”.“We will now retire to consider” Wilders’ application, said judge Frans Bauduin, the chairman of a special panel of judges hastily convened to hear the recusal bid that interrupted Wilders’ trial.A ruling on the recusal is to be made at 2:00 pm (1200 GMT) on Tuesday, said Bauduin.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Fox News Executive: “We Are So In Obama’s Head”….Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is playing a larger and more directly partisan role in this year’s elections than it is known to have played in any previous American campaign.The news late Thursday that the company, whose holdings include the Fox News Channel, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post, had given $1 million to a business coalition that is advertising heavily against Democrats came roughly two months after election filings showed that its News America division had given $1 million to the Republican Governors Association.An executive at Fox News who agreed to be interviewed on the condition of anonymity expressed amusement over Obama’s focus on the network.“We are so in his head,” he said. “Can you believe with all other things going on in this world he’s preoccupied with Fox News?”Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Poll dress diktat for Kerala Muslim women.The Indian Union Muslim League has asked women contesting local body elections in Kerala to “dress according to Islamic norms”, though it stopped short of spelling out the word burqa.The IUML, which has always claimed to be a secular party, insisted the code was aimed at maintaining “religious discipline”.Party state secretary K.N.A. Qader said the code shouldn’t come in the way of “contesting and carrying out the duties” of a representative. “Muslim women are present widely at campuses and workplaces but that should not stop them from following religious orders,” said the advocate.Asked if the dress code wouldn’t hamper individual freedom, Qader said it was only to ensure that they followed their “faith and rites”.Sources said the Muslim Women’s League, the women’s wing of the IUML, had opposed the code but was left with no choice but to obey the “elders”.IUML members countered, saying if the party was “orthodox”, it wouldn’t have allowed women to enter politics. “There are many in our society who feel that women entering politics is haraam (un-Islamic),” Qader said.The opposite of evolving....regressing?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:Newsrealblog.Confused or Lying? Obama Think He’s “Accomplished 70%” of Campaign Promises.This past week much was written about President Obama’s interview with Rolling Stone magazine. One thing few caught was Obama’s fuzzy math skills. The President claimed a 70% success rate in accomplishing campaign promises. What was it that John Adams said about facts? Wasn’t it something about them being stubborn things?Rolling Stone’s interview was a love fest toward the President, and the only ‘tough’ questions had to do with progressives wishing Obama was doing more. Of course, Rolling Stone went to bat for Obama in how they asked him the questions.Obviously Obama feels he has done a superb job as President. He believes (or wants us to believe) that he has accomplished 70% of his campaign promises in less than two years in office. Wow, that seems impressive (or terrifying if you aren’t a fan of Obama’s campaign promises). I wonder if there is a way to check the President’s math?We did and :Maybe Obama meant he had a 70% unaccomplished rate – then the numbers would actually make sense.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Ht:IsraelMatzav.Israel warns Lebanon on Ahmadinejad visit.Through diplomatic channels, Israel has warned Lebanon not to allow Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad to visit the border area between Israel and Lebanon next week. Through United Nations, U.S. and French mediators, Israel has urged the Lebanese government to prevent Ahmadinejad from visiting the border and engaging in what Jerusalem described as "provocation.""The message is that Iran is at the border with Israel," Fares Souaid, coordinator of the March 14 alliance, said."Ahmadinejad through this visit is saying that Beirut is under Iranian influence and that Lebanon is an Iranian base on the Mediterranean," said Mr Souaid, whose coalition is led by the Western-backed Prime Minister."His visit to the south would be a provocation, he doesn't need to go there."Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

'May Iran Shut Down Evin University Forever'.Blogger Chahar Divari (Four Walls, a reference to the privacy of home) hopes that one day "Evin University" will be shut down.In recent years, critics have come to attach that nickname to Tehran's Evin prison because of all the student activists, journalists, and intellectuals who've spent time there.We shouldn't be unfair, [Iranian officials] have kept their promise in this regard. There are professors in there, students; and it's the hangout of artists and thinkers. It has a great pluralistic atmosphere when it comes to thinking.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Analysis: Terrorism alerts reflect evolving militant threat.U.S. and British alerts about possible attacks in Europe highlight concern that growing numbers of militants are going from the West to remote war zones for training in answer to al Qaeda's online call for violence.Joerg Ziercke, head of Germany's BKA Federal Crime Office, said last month more than 400 Islamist radicals were living in Germany, some of whom had trained in camps overseas, including a hard core with combat experience in Afghanistan. Police had seen a rise in German residents moving to and from the camps."There's a number, a not insignificant number, of seriously dangerous people going around," he said.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Free-Speech Cases Highlight New Term.As the Supreme Court begins its new term, it will be a baptism by fire for its greenest justice, Elena Kagan.First Amendment cases top the Supreme Court's docket as it begins a new term with a new justice and three women on the bench for the first time.The court will look at provocative anti-gay protests at military funerals and a California law banning the sale of violent video games to children. These cases worry free speech advocates, who fear the court could limit First Amendment freedoms.The funeral protest lawsuit, over signs praising American war deaths, "is one of those cases that tests our commitment to the First Amendment," said Steven Shapiro, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Flashback.Geert Wilders and European democracy.The outcome of the current trial of Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders on charges of “incitement to hatred” will represent a watershed in Europe’s response to the challenge of Islamic fundamentalism.Wilders, nicknamed Mozart because of his blond hair, is somewhat of a maverick. Voted politician of the year in 2007 by the Dutch media, he is a charismatic and popular politician who displays refreshing contempt for the hypocritical political correctness relating to Islam that has enveloped Europe. Some polls suggest that in an election now, his Freedom Party could become Holland’s largest parliamentary party.Wilders opposes what he regards as the craven appeasement of the Netherlands and most European nations to intimidation and threats of violence from Islamic fundamentalists.Against the background of the massive influx of Muslim immigrants, he fears that having embraced post-modernism and cultural relativism, most Europeans lack the stamina to maintain their core values and are capitulating to Muslims determined to impose Shari’a law in Europe.Wilders refers to Islam as “the Trojan horse in Europe” and predicts that “if we do not stop Islamification now, Eurabia will just be a matter of time. One century ago, there were approximately 50 Muslims in the Netherlands. Today, there are about one million. Where will it end? We are heading for the end of European civilization.”WE JEWS, more than any minority, have suffered from incitement to hatred. But having regard to the extent to which Christianity and Judaism and its symbols are routinely satirized, mocked and abused in Western society, it would represent a bizarre application of double standards to prevent a man like Wilders from expressing critical views about Islam even if many disagree with him. Whilst democratic societies should prohibit incitement to violence, Wilders is surely entitled to be as critical about Islam as others are about communism, capitalism, Christianity or Judaism.Besides, Islamic countries are notorious for denying freedom of worship and freedom of expression to Christians and Jews. Their culture, media and mosques are saturated with hatred of other religions, especially incitement against Jews. To enable them to impose restrictions on freedom of expression in Western countries would amount to capitulation and appeasement to aggressive Muslim minorities. Particularly so now, when imams and radical Islamists continuously call for the assassination of critics of Islam as exemplified by the murderous response to the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in Denmark.Read the full story here.More on his trial case here.Click here for comments.

British intelligence denies US terror warnings sparked by new info.US warning of commando terror attacks in Europe irritates European officials, who say no evidence plot is imminent.The US's warning to Americans to be vigilant in Europe added fresh impetus to the scares. The Foreign Office upgraded its threat warning to Britons going to France and Germany, although the terror threat level in Britain remained the same.European officials again made it clear yesterday they were "irritated" with the US for leaking stories before they could gather more intelligence. There was no evidence that a plot was imminent, and intelligence was described by a well-placed Whitehall official as "ill-defined".Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Number Of Jailed Iran Students 'Highest In Decades'.An Iranian opposition website says 73 students are currently being held in Iranian jails over their activism.Daneshjoonews.com published the names of the jailed students and said the number is the highest it has been in decades. It said the students are being held throughout the country, from Tehran's notorious Evin prison to jails in Ahwaz, Tabriz, Isfahan, Babol, Rajaee Shahr, and in Gohardasht, which is outside of Tehran."I don't think the authorities will be able to control the student movement, as every year new students are coming to universities and they bring new life to the student movement," he said.Rashidi added that the atmosphere at universities "in the new semester will be much more difficult for authorities to control because fresh students are coming from communities that have experienced massive protests [against the government]." Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

The Rise of Black Republicans.I bet you haven't heard of Tim Scott, Allen West or Ryan Frazier. If they were Democrats, I might lose that bet.But they're not. Mr. Scott, Mr. West and Mr. Frazier are three of the 14 black candidates running for Congress as Republicans this November. Thirty-two black Republicans ran in the primaries.Most of the 14 are running all-but-hopeless races against black Democratic incumbents in black majority districts. But Mr. Scott, running in South Carolina, is a virtual cinch to win. Mr. West (Florida) and Mr. Frazier (Colorado) are in races that are judged tossups.Accusations of racism against Republicans are a staple of Democratic politics because Democrats need to keep blacks on the plantation to remain viable nationally. "Young people and minorities are all the president has left," the National Journal headlined its story on a poll released Wednesday.The most interesting datum to me in the National Journal/Pew poll is that just 76 percent of blacks approve of the job President Obama is doing. And a tracking poll Sept. 24 by the conservative PJTV indicated 35 percent of likely black voters either strongly or somewhat support the tea party.It could be the increased number of black Republicans running for office and their increased acceptance by other blacks is due in large part to Mr. Obama. His election represented the pinnacle of black hopes within the Democratic Party. His disappointing performance in office is causing more than a few to consider alternatives.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Mosque torched near Hebron.Palestinian sources report of prayer house desecration in West Bank village of Beit Fajar. Graffiti blaspheming Mohammad found on Mosque walls; arson investigation launched. Settlers' "price tag" policy strikes again? A mosque at the Palestinian village of Beit Fajar, north of the West Bank city of Hebron, was set on fire Monday and according to Palestinian sources, graffiti blaspheming the Prophet Mohammad was sprayed on several of the building's walls.The police are investigating reports by Palestinians that settlers arrived at the mosque and set several Koran books on fire, as well as a prayer rug. According to the sources, the building sustained serious damage.Contrary to Palestinian claims, the Civil Administration said that the incident was carried out in the middle of the night and that no clash broke out on the site. A Shai District Police spokesperson reported that large police and military forces arrived at the site along with a forensics team."This is the first time settlers have vandalized the village's mosque," he added.Extreme right-wing activist Baruch Marzel said that " I will not be surprised to learn that, while the Israeli government demonstrates helplessness and abandons the settlers to their fate, some Jew take matters into their own hands. The government must understand that Jewish blood is just as precious."The IDF Spokesman's Unit released a statement following the mosque torching north of the West Bank city of Hebron, saying Civil Administration Head Brigadier-General Yoav Mordechai personally called his colleagues in the Palestinian Authority and assured them that the IDF and security forces are working to locate the vandals. "We see this as a grave event," said the statement.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Briton, 91, and his 82-year-old wife ordered off QM2 cruise ship after expletive-ridden row over 'anti-Semitic' remarks.Cunard said in a statement that it only refunded the couple £529 because they engaged in ‘multiple incidences of disrespectful and disruptive behaviour towards crew members and other guests'.It added the company ‘fully supported’ the captain's decision.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:Memri.Video : Muhammad Salim Al-Awa, Secretary-General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars: Copts Amass Weapons in Egyptian Churches and Are "Preparing for War against the Muslims".Click here for comments.

Lieberman: Obama trying to force agreement on Israel.FM tells fellow Yisrael Beiteinu members US wants two-month settlement freeze to draft peace deal that would mean two states for two people along 1967 borders. On controversial UN speech: I wanted to tell the world the truth as I see it.Why am i not surprised?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Kılıçdaroğlu draws ire with Iranian-model headscarf proposal.Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who has been pledging to solve Turkey's headscarf issue since he took the helm of his party, finally made public his proposal: He cited the Iranian and Pakistani style of head covering as his example, drawing severe criticism from multiple fronts. “I am referring to Turkey's covering as ‘türban' and not headscarf because they are different from each other. The basic difference is that headscarf is a traditional covering and it does not have to cover all the hair. … Türban, on the other hand, is used to cover all of a woman's hair.For Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, it was ironic that the CHP, which has been arguing for years that Turkey faces the threat of becoming like Iran, is now showing Iran as a model for the solution to the headscarf issue.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Hot Post:Red Guard Harvard Students “Educate” Dr. Martin Peretz.This past weekend, a throng—nay, a large crowd of Harvard students publicly taunted, shamed, and stalked the venerable liberal intellectual Martin Peretz. Like the jihadists who distribute videos of their beheadings, the protesters also released their mini “Aktion” on YouTube. They call it: “Party for Marty.”The event was to mark the fiftieth anniversary of a Social Studies program. Harvard alumni had raised additional funding for this program in Peretz’s honor. Students protested what they believe Professor Peretz wrote, thinks, is—or perhaps they were also protesting Harvard for daring to honor him.At the end of the day, Harvard allowed Peretz to speak—but only briefly. Very briefly. Harvard still honored him. Speakers included the president of Harvard, various alumni of the Social Studies program, the president of Penn, as well as various social scientists and students.Peretz was, essentially, silenced. But that was not enough. The righteous, self-satisfied protestors made it a point to hunt Peretz down as he tried to exit quietly, with some dignity, and mocked him continuously as they accompanied him on his long walk through Harvard Yard to his car; they also held the “offending words” posters.They remind me, not only of Muslim rioters, or Nazi brown shirts, but more and more, of the cruel, heartless and young Red Guard in Mao’s China, who also believed they were politically perfect and that their enemies, sometimes their own parents, deserved to die.Hmmm.....i would call it something else.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:PajamasMedia.Norwegian Publisher Cancels Biography of Muhammed.The book had already been listed in last year's catalog. Why was it pulled?The Norwegian historian and journalist Halvor Tjønn has written a biography of the founder of Islam, Muhammed. The book was announced by the Oslo publisher Kagge in last year’s fall catalog. But now the publisher has suddenly pulled out — and refuses to provide any explanation of why it no longer wishes to publish the book.What is this? An act of self-censorship on the part of the publisher? Some professional disagreement? If the latter, why can’t it be straightened out? But if it’s the former, it’s nothing less than a tragedy. It is not becoming for a publisher to say ”No further comment.”It can only be hoped that another publisher will decide to snap up what must certainly be described as a very timely book. Then the readers will be able to decide whether it was worth publishing or not.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Left-Wing Crazies Take Their Turn.The One Nation rally Saturday fell far short of Glenn Beck’s march, in terms of numbers and enthusiasm, but John Avlon, author of Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America, reports that it mirrored it in one key way: plenty of wingnuts.The stated intention of the One Nation rally was to promote an “antidote” rather than just a left-wing “alternative to the Tea Party,” according to NAACP President Benjamin Jealous. The reality fell far short of that unifying goal.Instead, the rally offered a snapshot of the fragile coalition that is the contemporary far left—a dizzying array of activist organizations and identity politics, with financial muscle provided by the labor unions who bused their members in.The curious migration of anti-Semitism to the left was evident in signs that read “End All U.S. Aid to the Racist State of Israel” and “Fund Jobs, Not Israel.” I cringed as these marchers crowded past a group of World War II vets from Columbus, Ohio, being wheeled to their war memorial as part of the excellent “Honor Flight” program.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:thevirtuousrepublic.Extremist Groups Which Endorsed Today’s One Nation Working Together March.Do you wonder who is the Democratic base? Do you wonder who supported and endorsed today’s leftist march on Washington? Do you wander which groups One Nation Working Together associates itself with? Of course the answer is hard core leftists!Here’s the list of all the endorsing groups from the ONWT website.Read and see the full story here.Click here for comments.

More scope for UAE-US partnership: Sheikha Lubna.UAE and US are reliable allies, with shared security and economic interests."While the UAE has a strong relationship with many of the large US defense and aerospace companies, there is more scope to provide multiple sources for parts, and even a measure of self-sufficiency by creating capability at home, and creating jobs and a future for people in these sectors,”The event was organized in honor of the visit of the US Aerospace & Defense Trade Mission to the UAE this week.“The UAE and the US are reliable allies, with shared security and economic interests, Sheikha Lubna added.''This is due to the fact that the UAE is a source of stability, tolerance, innovation, and growth in the Arabian Gulf and around the globe,” she said.Hmmm.....creating jobs in the U.A.E. while demantling NASA jobs at home?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:LegalInsurrection.A Call For Photos From The "One Nation" Rally In Washington.Photos of communist and socialist participants.But not just any photos of communists and socialist participants, because that would be too easy.No, the photos I want are of communists and socialist participants which appear in the mainstream media.Wow....it might be easyer to get a few UFO's?Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Muslim woman sacked from estate agency for REFUSING to wear a headscarf.A Muslim woman has been awarded more than £13,500 after she was sacked for refusing to wear a headscarf at the estate agency where she worked.Ghazala Khan - a 31-year-old non-practising Muslim - was fired less than two weeks into her job at a company run by traditional Muslim businessman Masood Ghafoor simply because she refused to cover her hair.Mr Ghafoor told Miss Khan, who had nine years experience in the trade, that his wife and female relatives all wore full veils or burkas, telling her that her parents had given her 'far too much freedom'.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Serbian Patriarch Enthroned In Kosovo Church Amid Tight Security.Thousands of faithful Serbs gathered in the Kosovo town of Pec to attend the enthroning ceremony of the head of Serbia's Orthodox Church, Patriarch Irinej.The 80-year-old Patriarch Irinej succeeded Pavle after his death in November 2009. The first part of the two-stage enthronement ceremony took place in Belgrade in January.The ceremony, attended by Serbian President Boris Tadic and other high-ranking officials, is the first of its kind in the ethnic-Albanian-dominated town of Pec since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in February 2008.Security was tight as around 900 Kosovo police were deployed around the church's picturesque mountain location, said Amra Zejneli, an RFE/RL correspondent in Kosovo.NATO-led peacekeepers and the European Union's police mission were alongside local police forces to ensure security."According to the police, around 2,500 pilgrims came from Serbia to witness the ceremony," Zejneli said. "Also, Serbians from central Kosovo arrived in several buses. Some people also came from Montenegro.""Outside the church, there is a big plasma screen, where people can see what's going on inside the church. You can see various people here, some very very old, some middle-aged, and some very young," Zejneli said.Irinej arrived in Pec on October 2. He urged both ethnic Serbs and ethnic Albanians to find a solution to Kosovo's contested status.These are "very, very difficult times" for Serbia, the patriarch said.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

HT:AmericanThinker.We Allow Them to Blackmail Us -- Islam vs. the West.The Muslim world does not have to fire a single shot; the Western world is capitulating to the Islamists' every demand. Three recent events show the continuing and relentless interplay among Islamists worldwide.The latest assault is playing out in Spain. La Meca, a popular "discotheque in southern Spain, has agreed to change its name and architectural design" because of pressure from Islamic extremists who find the name of the discotheque and its design "offensive and insulting to their religion."Bat Ya'or explains that this "tacit, non-comprehended acceptance of shariah's dictates" in essence "puts the Western public sphere in the position of conforming to one of the basic rules of dhimmitude: the express prohibition of Christians and Jews to criticize Islamic history and doctrine."We must identify, recognize and defeat every facet of shariah's designs and the people who promulgate it. We must begin to educate ourselves about this existential threat.Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

Michelle Obama threatens to divorce Barack Obama if he tries to seek second term.Michelle Obama has threatened to divorce Barack Obama if he tries to seek a second term as president. That is the report according to well-placed and insider sources from the National Enquirer, who work in the nation’s capital. This report of strife and all-out threat-making in the Obamas’ marriage is not the first time that reports have arisen, which detail that not everything is well in Obamaland. Earlier this year, reports emerged that Barack Obama himself—also known by liberals everywhere as either "The Messiah" or "The One"—had engaged in a sordid affair with none other than a former campaign aide by the name of Vera Baker. While there have only been reports of said alleged affair, if true, it would mean that the apple did not fall far from the tree, seeing as how Barack Obama Senior (anti-colonial socialist that he was) had many affairs himself.According to the Enquirer’s reporting, the Obamas’ marital spat happened just recently, after they had returned with their little daughters in tow from their "well-deserved" vacation on Martha’s Vineyard (during which time America continued to suffer from double-digit unemployment, uncontrolled illegal immigrants encroaching into the country, and increasing, rising costs of health care insurance). During their spat, Michelle was reported to have broken down in tears—so fed up was she with Barack—and climaxed the quarrel by screaming, "I hate you for dragging me through all this…I’ve had enough!"If this report accurately details what occurred between the Obamas, then sympathy is in order for Michelle. After all, poor baby, she has had it really hard considering all those lavish trips to Spain for vacation (while many Americans struggled with double-digit unemployment stateside), volunteering at food banks while wearing her ultra-trendy $540 dollar sneakers (while more Americans continue stopping looking for work), and defaming America as a mean country!Read the full story here.Click here for comments.

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